IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS

IELTS Listening: The Eucalyptus Tree in Australia 🇦🇺

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

#ielts Listening Part 4 - gapfill summary. Find a similar topic here: https://ieltsetc.com/2018/08/ielts-listening-honeybees-australia/

IELTS Listening: Birth order and personality 🚼

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Listening Part 3: How birth order affects your personality.

IELTS GT Reading: 🦖🦕Dinosaurs and the secrets they hold 🦖🦕

19 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS GT Reading Part 3 - gapfill summary, multiple choice and choosing from a list. Find a similar reading with the vocab you need to know about anim...

IELTS Listening - Cities built by the sea 🌊🏙️

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is a Section 3 (dialogue between 2 students) with lots of vocab related to the environment: - urban planning - coastal cities - pollutants are di...

IELTS Reading: Saving bugs to find new drugs 🐞💊

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A long and difficult but FASCINATING text with SO MUCH useful vocabulary which I list at the end. - Matching Information with paragraphs - Choosing fr...

IELTS Reading: An unusual Academic Passage 1 - The concept of intelligence.

21 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This passage has an academic, theoretical structure rather than a factual, chronological one.  Watch the video on YouTube to see how it looks: ht...

IELTS GT Reading: Parts 1 and 2

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Finding a roommate, the best fitness apps, How to Delegate and Choosing the right CV Format. Find the word formation booklet here: https://ieltsetc.co...

IELTS Listening: 🗺MAPS and MCQs

07 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This video looks at Section 2 of the IELTS Listening Test, which often includes a MAP in the second half.  Watch the video on YouTube if you woul...

IELTS Reading: Why companies should welcome disorder

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So sorry for the delay - I'm back now! Been working on the daily YouTube lives during Lockdown. Did you miss them? Just go to my YouTube channel (I'll...

IELTS Experts - 10 of your most common questions about IELTS answered

18 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast (also on YouTube) I ask my boss Max to give us his insider tips about #IELTS (it's exactly the same as what I say but people actually ...

IELTS Reading Time Management Tips

24 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Need to read faster in the test? In this video and podcast, I'll take you through a Reading test and show you what you can do at each stage to answer ...

IELTS Computer-Delivered General Training Reading Test Part 1

17 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast is taken from my YouTube Video (watch this to see the text). https://youtu.be/Fq000OEq_OU I take you through the first part of a Computer...

IELTS Writing Error Correction - The Blue Book project 📘

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you rely on a teacher to correct your writing mistakes for the IELTS Test? Is this the most effective way?    In this podcast I look at s...

IELTS Listening: 🔆The history of weather forecasting 🔆

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I made this as a YouTube video so you can watch it here if you'd like to see the text at the same time: https://youtu.be/3px5vTBQ5Mk It's a Part 4 gap...

IELTS Reading: Matching Headings - A visit to Oymyakon 🥶

26 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

GT IELTS Matching Headings and gapfill practice. Watch the podcast on YouTube so that you can see the text and my explanations (and try the test for y...

IELTS Listening: Kite-making kite 🪁 by the Maori people of New Zealand 🇳🇿

10 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Part 4 IELTS Listening on the topic of Civilisation (again! See my YouTube video about this). Vocab Victor is the app where you can develop your IELTS...

IELTS Listening: Natural Dyes 🧶🧵

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Multiple Choice and Matching in a Part 3 (student and tutor). Watch my YouTube video about how to recognise signals in Part 3 Listening: https://youtu...

IELTS Reading GT Section 1: How synonyms work in Part 1 - The best suitcases 💼🧳and The Oxford School of Drama 🎭

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

GT Reading is not always as easy as it looks in Part 1. Yes, the texts are shorter but you have to do 2 of them in 20 mins and you need a good level o...

IELTS Reading: Meet the Organoleptics 🤥👺👃🏽🐽

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

GT Reading Part 3 - matching people, matching info and TFNG.

IELTS listening: Field Trip Proposal 🏜

10 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listening Part 3 (Book 8 Test 1). Looking at signals, multiple choice and gap fill. Get more help with Part 3 here https://ieltsetc.com/2019/09/ielts-...

IELTS Reading: The return of artificial intelligence 🤖

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Reading passage 3 Test Book 5.

IELTS Reading: The Lost City 🇵🇪

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s the full blog https://ieltsetc.com/2019/11/ielts-reading-the-lost-city/

IELTS Reading: Venus in transit 🔭🪐

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This has been on my list of things to do for about a year! Such a tough text but so easy to guess at least half of the answers without a PhD in Astron...

IELTS Reading: Biological control of pests 🦗🐌🐛🦅

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A truly awful text but totally worth it for the vocab and strategies. Learn how to answer these questions without understanding almost anything 😯!

IELTS Reading: The truth about the environment 🗺🧯

28 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Passage 3 with lots of Vocab you can use in Writing Task 2.

IELTS listening: 🌊Marine renewable energy (Ocean Energy)

21 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A fabulous Part 4 Listening with tons of Vocab and expressions useful for both Task 1 Writing ✍🏽 (processes) and Task 2 Writing ✍🏽.

IELTS Tips: What to do when you hit a plateau ⛰

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Have you hit a plateau with IELTS? Are you stuck at the same band despite studying really hard? I’ve done some research and condensed it into this 4...

IELTS GT Reading: Out of the ashes 🔥🔥🔥

04 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Passage 3 about the restoration of an 18th century house which caught fire. Excellent for Vocab about Buildings (Day 8 in the Vocab Course).

IELTS Reading: Endless Harvest 🐟🐟🐟

28 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Academic Passage 2 about over-fishing, commercial fishing, sustainable fishing and environmental responsibility. T/F/NG.

IELTS Reading: Rural Transport Project 🚜 🐴

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ok this one is pretty tedious BUT! it covers 4 question of the WORST types (Matching Headings, YNNG, Sentence completion and Q40) so it’s well worth...

IELTS Listening: ⛔️ ⛔️Signposts Part 2

06 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Last week I outlined the 10 signals and signposts that lead you to the answer in the Listening Test (see my blog for more details and a YouTube video)...

IELTS Listening: ⛔️ SIGNALS and SIGNPOSTS to lead you to the answer.⛔️

29 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Listening Part 3 is a very carefully structured dialogue full of signals like ‘So!’ ‘’Well!’ ‘’Now!’, emphatic structures (‘What I d...

IELTS Reading: Sustainable Architecture - 🐜 lessons from the ant 🐜

22 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Reading about a building in Zimbabwe whose ‘air-conditioning system’ was based on termite mounds. Fascinating!

IELTS Grammar: a simple way of remembering the difference between ‘ing’ and infinitives 🙌🏽

15 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

If you struggle to work out when to use ‘ing’ the solution is here! Find the whole blog on my website and 10-minute tutorial on YouTube. https://w...

IELTS Vocab and Reading: The true cost of food 🚜🐑👩🏽‍🌾

02 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I chose this one JUST because of the vocab! It’s fabulous to review the topic of intensive industrial agriculture and its impact on the environment....

IELTS Reading: Climate change and the Inuit ❄️🌞🌎

18 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A problem-solution structure with matching headings and gap-fill.

IELTS Reading: Bring back the big cats 🐅🐈🐾

04 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

If you listen to just one podcast this week, make sure it's this one! A fascinating text bursting with IELTS vocabulary.

Can I prepare for IELTS in one month?

27 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episodes encourages you to dust off your 28-Day Planner and use it more effectively. Find all the tips and links on my blog https://www.ieltsetc....

IELTS Reading part 1: The history of cinema 🎬🎟

11 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Academic passage 1 (good for GT too) all about how cinema developed. Good to learn about this topic (there's a listening about it here https://www.iel...

IELTS Listening: Neolithic Ireland ☘️

21 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode focuses on the grammar of Modals of Deduction in IELTS Listening. Find a full explanation with practice on my website. https://www.ieltse...

28 ways to improve your IELTS Vocabulary.📕

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Check out my website for all of the 28 tips with links https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/05/28-ways-improve-ielts-vocab/.  Get the full vocabulary co...

IELTS Reading: The history of tortoises 🐢

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A very difficult Passage 3 where a Degree in Zoology might help. Here is the text on the website https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/04/ielts-reading-histor...

IELTS Reading: Reducing the effects of climate change 🏔🛶🌞🌇

17 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Academic Passage 3 Book 11 Test 1 - a really useful text for vocabulary. Also good practice for completing a table and matching researchers. 👩🏻‍...

IELTS Reading: Glow-worms 🐛

15 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A fantastic reading for vocab. Matching information and T/F/NG questions.

IELTS Reading: Hearing problems 👂🏾

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Speed-reading strategies for texts with 3 or more sets of questions. Book 9 Test 2 Passage 1.

IELTS Reading: This Marvellous Invention 🗣

04 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A VERY difficult Academic Reading Part 3 (sorry!). Book 11 Test 4. See also 'How did writing begin?' on my website.

IELTS Reading: Stepwells 🇮🇳

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is a REALLY interesting Passage 1 Academic (good for GT too). Great for vocab topics (Water and Buildings) and speed-reading practice (just find ...

IELTS Listening: Business Cultures 🤝

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Section 4 made up entirely of gap fill! Have a look at all the signals that can help you keep your place https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/03/ielts-listen...

IELTS Listening: Nanotechnology 🤖

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Find out how my mindmaps can help you get over 70% of these answers correct! This #ielts listening Part 4 (Book 10 Test 4) will help you with multiple...

IELTS Reading: Is there anybody out there? 👽 Matching Headings

28 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How to match headings quickly using only first lines. See the video on YouTube and get the full text on my website 👽 https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/...

IELTS Reading: how to use comparisons in TFNG

21 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate #motherlanguageday, this difficult Academic Passage 3 gives you some easy ways of filling gaps and recognising 'Not Given'. Find the full...

IELTS Listening: Study Skills Tutorial 👩🏾‍🎓👨🏾‍🎓📖📚

07 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Test Book 9 Test 3 Section 3: Listen to a tutor giving advice to a student about her dissertation and practice listening for signals and Gap fill.

How to learn the vocab you need for IELTS 📕🦔🦇🦉

02 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode helps you through the vocab you need to learn for the #ielts test. It is based on the hedgehog reading from 2 days ago but shows you how ...

IELTS Reading and vocab: Hedgehogs 🦔

31 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A difficult Part 3, which I made specially for #hedgehogday on February 2nd to raise awareness of the dramatic decline in the hedgehog population.

IELTS Listening: Thor Heyerdahl 🛶

24 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Test Book 10 Test 2 Section 3. The life and theories of Thor Heyerdahl.

IELTS Reading: Museums of Fine Art 👩🏾‍🎨 Part 2

20 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A difficult Passage 3 - Multiple Choice and Yes No Not Given. Also a rant about where NOT to get your #ielts practice materials.

IELTS Reading: Museums of fine art Part 1 👩🏾‍🎨

17 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A complex and sophisticated Academic Reading Part 3, so I'm breaking this podcast up into more manageable parts. Please come back for the next bit 😊...

IELTS Reading: Doctoring Sales 🚑💊💉👩🏾‍⚕️👨🏼‍⚕️⛑

11 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Book 6 Passage 1: Matching Headings and Yes/No/Not Given. Get the full text here https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/01/ielts-reading-doctoring-sales/

IELTS Listening: The History of Moving Pictures 📽🎬🎞

05 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Test Book 6 Test 2 Listening Section 4. Multiple Choice and Gap Fill. 😊 https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/01/ielts-listening-history-moving-pictures/

IELTS Reading: The Story of Silk 👘

30 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Book 11 Academic Test 3 Section 1 - a chronological structure with gap fill and True False Not Given.

IELTS Listening: A social history of London 🌃

24 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Listening Part 4. Book 6 Test 1. 🎄🎅🏽

IELTS Reading: Autumn Leaves 🍁

18 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A tough Passage 2 from #ielts Book 10 Test 3, with matching statements, True/False/Not Given and Gapfill. Get the full Reading on my website https://w...

IELTS Reading: Beyond the blue horizon 🛶

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Academic Reading Passage 3. Multiple choice, gap-fill and Yes/Not/Not Given. Full Reading now on my website https://www.ieltsetc.com/2018/12/ielts-rea...

IELTS Listening: The Dolphin 🐬 Conservation Trust

09 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

#ielts Listening Section 2.

Listening Section 2: An open-air swimming 🏊🏾‍♀️ pool

05 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Multiple choice tricks and synonyms. Key vocab and frequent words. Skip the LAST 5 minutes if you want! 😬

IELTS Listening: 3 types of distractors you need to know about

28 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This Section 3 has examples of 3 different types of distractors that you need to listen for: ‘should have, could have, would have’ 🤔

IELTS GT Reading: The Iron Bridge 🛤

25 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A special request from the Speaking Challenge WhatsApp group! Use the structure of a descriptive/factual/chronological text to help you find the answe...

IELTS GT Reading Staff Benefits 🤑🤒🧖🏽‍♀️👩🏾‍🎓👴🏽

21 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

#ielts Cambridge Book 9 Test A Section 2 Part 2 JLP Retail: Staff Benefits plus useful vocab 😀 www.ieltsetc.com

IELTS GT Reading: Dress Codes 👔👖🧢💍👑

21 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

#ielts Cambridge Tests Book 9 Test A Section 2. Get the full reading on my website www.ieltsetc.com 😀

IELTS Listening: A public building - Taylor Concert Hall 🏛

18 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 4 on the topic of architecture.

IELTS Reading: How did writing begin? 🏺🏺🏺

14 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On a scale of 1 - 10 in terms of difficulty, this is a 10 sorry 😐!! So if you’re aiming for a 7/8 it’s worth a listen, but please don’t feel ...

IELTS November Speaking Challenge and Reading about a pay rise

04 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's the first week of the November Speaking Challenge and in this podcast I explain the benefits of taking part, speaking every day, recording yourse...

IELTS 🎃 Speaking Challenge

31 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

An explanation about the ‘pinky’ story, the importance of contractions and an introduction to the November 1 minute Speaking Challenge! #ielts1min...

IELTS Reading: Snake oil 🐍🐍🐍

28 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This is a long one and a tough one but really worth spending time on. Matching Headings and True False Not Given. Full test coming soon on www.ieltset...

IELTS Reading: Differences at work 👩🏽‍🏫👨🏽‍🏫

26 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Find the full Reading here: https://www.ieltsetc.com/2018/10/ielts-reading-women-management/

IELTS Reading: Tidal Power 🌊🌊

23 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This reading gives you practice with matching statements, and it recycles key IELTS vocabulary related to renewable energy. Find the full test and exp...

IELTS Listening Part 2: A theatre 🎭

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Learn how to avoid the traps of multiple choice. Get the floor plan on my website.

IELTS Listening: BABY COTS 👶🏻

14 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Listening Section 2 about cots, with a little bit of pronunciation thrown in!

IELTS Listening: labelling a map 🗺

10 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Labelling a diagram: worms! 🐛 🐛

07 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Reading: Nature/Nurture Day 3 🤱🏻🤱🏻🤱🏻

23 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Reading: Nature or nurture Day 2 🤱🏻🤱🏻

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Reading: Nature or nurture? Day 1🤱🏻

19 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS GT Reading: Professional credentials 👩🏽‍🏫

14 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS GT Reading: Train information 🚂🚂

13 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS GT Reading - Young Person’s Railcard 🚂

12 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Reading: T/F/NG The Mary Rose 🌹⚓️

07 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Listening: Manham Port ⛴🚢⚓️

04 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Reading Day 3: Water 💦

31 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Reading Day 2 Matching Headings Water 💦💦

29 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Reading - Matching Headings Water 💦 Day 1

28 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Matching Headings: 🗿Easter Island 🗿

22 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

https://ieltsetc.com/2018/08/ielts-reading-easter-island/

IELTS Listening: A dinosaur museum 🦖🦕

19 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Reading: Tourism Day 2 ✈️✈️

15 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Reading: Matching Headings - Tourism Day1 ✈️

13 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Listening: Gender in finance 💰

08 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Listening: CO2 and soil 👨🏽‍🌾👩🏽‍🌾

31 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Reading: The megafires of California Day 2 👩🏽‍🚒👨🏾‍🚒

27 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Reading: The Megafires of California 👩🏽‍🚒

26 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IELTS Listening: Asiatic lions Day 2 🦁🦁

18 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas